Attorney-general
(n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. |
Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Brigadier general
() An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
Contract
(n.) To draw together or nearer |
Contract
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle |
Contract
(n.) To bring on |
Contract
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations |
Contract
(n.) To betroth |
Contract
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. |
Contract
(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent |
Contract
(v. i.) To make an agreement |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(a.) Contracted |
Contract
(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act |
Contract
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. |
Contract
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. |
Essence
(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it |
Essence
(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence) |
Essence
(n.) Constituent substance. |
Essence
(n.) A being |
Essence
(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter |
Essence
(n.) Perfume |
Essence
(v. t.) To perfume |
General
(a.) Relating to a genus or kind |
General
(a.) Comprehending many species or individuals |
General
(a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import |
General
(a.) Common to many, or the greatest number |
General
(a.) Having a relation to all |
General
(a.) As a whole |
General
(a.) Usual |
General
(a.) The whole |
General
(a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country |
General
(a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together |
General
(a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. |
General
(a.) The public |
Governor general
() A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him |
Hilary term
() Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year |
Implied
(a.) Virtually involved or included |
Implied
(imp. & p. p.) of Imply |
Lieutenant general
() An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. |
Major general
() An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. |
Negotiate
(v. i.) To transact business |
Negotiate
(v. i.) To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair |
Negotiate
(v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention |
Negotiate
(v. i.) To intrigue |
Negotiate
(v. t.) To carry on negotiations concerning |
Negotiate
(v. t.) To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law |
Postmasters-general
(pl. ) of Postmaster-general |
Postmaster-general
(n.) The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. |
Sea term
() A term used specifically by seamen |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
| breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
| general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
| contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer |
avocation
by-line
hobby
pursuit sideline
spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
| contract contract bridge | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
quarterback
signal caller
field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
| time exposure | exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second) |
harvest
harvest time | the season for gathering crops |
haying
haying time | the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
free time
spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
| general verdict | an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact |
| standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
| standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
command post
general headquarters
GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
general anesthetic
general anaesthetic | an anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousness |
general-purpose bomb
GP bomb | a large bomb ( to , pounds that is % explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect |
inhalation anesthetic
inhalation anaesthetic
inhalation general anesthetic
inhalation general anaesthetic | a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled |
line printer
line-at-a-time printer | printer that serves as an output device on a computer, prints a whole line of characters at a time |
page printer
page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
perfume
essence | a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor |
| standard banner | any distinctive flag |
| standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
| standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
| time-ball | a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time, especially at an observatory |
time bomb
infernal machine | a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time |
| time capsule | container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time |
| time clock | clock used to record the hours that people work |
time-delay measuring instrument
time-delay measuring system | chronoscope for measuring the time difference between two events |
| time exposure | a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time |
| time-fuse | a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb) |
| time machine | a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future |
| time-switch | a switch set to operate at a desired time |
vintage
time of origin | the oldness of wines |
meter
metre
time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
| light time | distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves), the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately minutes |
public knowledge
general knowledge | knowledge that is available to anyone |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory
LTM | your general store of remembered information |